I think it really depends on the individual. I've been keeping a pair of WC TX Rats over the winter and the two are like night and day. The larger of the two was very defensive when I caught it, striking and musking. But after only a couple weeks in captivity it had calmed down very nicely to the point where I can take it out of the cage and handel it a bit with no problems. It has also become very alert and inquisitive and pokes its head out of the hide box when we are moving around near its cage. The smaller one is the spawn of satan. I can't even get the cage open and the hide box removed before it is rattling the tail and gaping and striking. This snake has not changed one bit since I got on Christmas day. It is very secretive and nervous. I almost never see it out of its hide and when I do happen by when it is out in the open, it retreats quickly. I thought it was very interesting the way these two are so different, and how the larger one has calmed down so much without me really even trying to work with it. I only disturb these guys to do routine cleaning since I am releasing them in the spring.

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